“Have you ever seen a man, woman, or child who wasn’t eating an egg or just going to eat an egg or just coming away from eating an egg? I tell you, the good old egg is the foundation of daily life. Stop the first man you meet in the street and ask him which he’d sooner lose, his egg or his wife, and see what he says!”
― Love Among the Chickens
― Love Among the Chickens
“But a thing I’ve often noticed is that when I’ve got something off my mind, it pretty nearly always happens that Fate sidles up and shoves on something else,”
― The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. 4
― The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. 4
“It was one of those still evenings you get in the summer, when you can hear a snail clear its throat a mile away.”
― Carry On, Jeeves
― Carry On, Jeeves
“Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble.”
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“If she ever turned into a werewolf, it would be one of those jolly breezy werewolves whom it is a pleasure to know.”
― Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
― Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
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